Tide players
Subtitle: the movers and shakers of a rising China
By: Jianying Zha
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781595586209
Subjects: Intellectual life; Businesspeople; Social change; Intellectuals; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Biography; History
Description: In Tide Players, acclaimed New Yorker contributor and author Jianying Zha depicts a new generation of movers and shakers who are transforming modern China. Through half a dozen sharply etched and nuanced profiles, Tide Players captures both the concrete detail and the epic dimension of life in the world's fastest-growing economy.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The entrepreneurs; title: A good tycoon; title: The turtles; title: The barefoot capitalist; title: pt. 2. The intellectuals; title: Beida, Beida!; title: Enemy of the state; title: Servant of the state; title: Epilogue.